Great news! They’ve been talking about it long enough, time to finally just do it.
Oh fab. The sooner the better!
So now I have to separate all my cans and plastic bottles in my recycling?
Sounds like a hassle for somebody who already recycles.
Finally ive bags of cans and bottles in the shed waiting for this
Does it mean that every drink up to 500ml in a can or bottle will go up by 15cent? I recycle all my cans and bottles in my green bin already,so now I have to keep them all and drag them back to the shop to get my 15 cent per can back?
>There are some machines in operation already, he said, but the scheme will be operational within a year.
Are there? Haven’t seen/heard of any?
Can we not just get rid of plastic bottles all together? Coke and water both taste better from glass. Plus a lot of countries in Europe already have a glass recycling deposit.
15c a can and 25c a bottle over 500ml is an excessive charge.
During a cost of living crisis they are happy to whack 10% + onto many products. They had years to implement something like this but are doing it at the wrong time and definitely the wrong price point.
When can we get into the flicks with a bag of jam jars?
2 euro 40 on a tray of beer.
They will have ques around the block at the 3 or 4 machines they install in each area.
People are just gonna accept everything has gone up 10 or 15 cent or que for an hour once a week.
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Took them long enough
I loved this when I was in Berlin.
Now if only we could have German beer prices and peanut butter crisis.
Call me a sceptic, but I can see this ending up like the bottle banks. You make a journey to recycle your bottles only to find the bottle bank full to the brim. And so you have to cart all the stuff back home until the collection point finally gets emptied 3 weeks later. At which stage, everyone else in the same situation has arrived before you and filled it again. A bottleneck so to speak [chuckles].
How does this work for people who already recycle all this stuff already? Are the refuse companies going to give us a separate bin? And refund us when it’s collected?
Yes yes and another yes!! This has been around for years in other countries and has been a success everywhere it’s been established really curious as to how it’s taken so long here to get this going seems like a no brainer idea
We live in a world now we’re the recycling money back will be added to the price.
The biggest upside of this scheme is the lack of cans and bottles all over the place.
I remember this being introduced in Germany and suddenly the outdoors got a lot cleaner.
Even if you don’t care about the 25/15 cents some person living on the street will pick it up.
Why not glass also?
Can’t wait for the next marathon.
Gonna make a killin getting a gang together collecting up all them water bottles!
For me and my family, this actually increases emissions.
We all have bins and recycle anyways. Only now I have bags of them collected and often drive up to Lidl especially for the voucher. It’s only a few miles away so still worth it.
My ma saves up a load of cans and drives about 20 miles to the nearest lidl.
Being doing it for months in Lidl, it’s great facility, you tend to buy certain sizes so you can recycle, for example I’d buy 4 or 5 bottles of 5 litre water but not now because the machine isn’t that big, so I buy the same in 2 litre bottles. When you get €1.50 back on the slip to use in the store, ya can’t help but feel it’s a great service.
What they need to do is a collection service for glass, and get rid of plastic bottles altogether.
I lived in the States before and remember we were drinking cans in the park one day and this old lady hung around, about 20m away, and each time one of us finished a can she’d come over and take it from us. It was sad enough but also very convenient.
Love the idea in theory, but as always the devil will be in the detail of the logistics behind it. I’m sure that a few retailers will push back on having the recycle points due to space and cost of staffing issues.
The future “look at this video of my recycling bin being emptied onto my drive and someone taking all the cans and bottles from it” threads could be fun too.
Bloody hell the comments on this, not just here but everywhere. As if the world is ending.
I grew up in a country that has had return deposit forever and guess what, it’s no big deal. It becomes just a part of the normal shopping routine and if you buy roughly the same amount of stuff every week, it won’t be extra – the deposit paid will equal the deposit refunded at the till.
And any cans/bottles that are consumed outside the home are either brought back home or left close to the bin (not in) for homeless people to pick up and return. Less trash and it has the effect of some money flowing to the worst off.
We can argue about the finer points of how this will be implemented, but this is not some big nefarious scheme.
About flipping time
Gee. My Sister and I did this for extra pocket money when we were kids [I’m 46 btw] in NY. Ireland far behind on the curve as usual.
Ban plastic bottles. Everything else is soft.
I wonder if I started stockpiling cans and bottles now could I cash in come 2024. Be like Homer and his pile of sugar.
Is this taxable income? 😆 Wonder if it gives you receipts so you can prove this is your source of extra income should you clean up after lazy people or general litter when on a walk.
Time to set up bottle/can bins all over Dublin and collect free money.
What happens when you use your recycling wheelie bin?
To be honest I’m concerned it will just be another tax – after all most people already recycle cans and bottles in their refuse at home and I guarantee retailers will seize the opportunity to increase prices.
From what I can tell from the machines (and others in Europe) it reads the barcode of the bottle or can, can anyone confirm? If so that means they only single cans or bottles would be subject to the deposit, not multipack cans as I was talking about earlier.
Lived in western canada and it was great to have beer cans recycled into beer money at the end of the month when Bills were paid and cash was low!
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Great news! They’ve been talking about it long enough, time to finally just do it.
Oh fab. The sooner the better!
So now I have to separate all my cans and plastic bottles in my recycling?
Sounds like a hassle for somebody who already recycles.
Finally ive bags of cans and bottles in the shed waiting for this
Does it mean that every drink up to 500ml in a can or bottle will go up by 15cent? I recycle all my cans and bottles in my green bin already,so now I have to keep them all and drag them back to the shop to get my 15 cent per can back?
>There are some machines in operation already, he said, but the scheme will be operational within a year.
Are there? Haven’t seen/heard of any?
Can we not just get rid of plastic bottles all together? Coke and water both taste better from glass. Plus a lot of countries in Europe already have a glass recycling deposit.
15c a can and 25c a bottle over 500ml is an excessive charge.
During a cost of living crisis they are happy to whack 10% + onto many products. They had years to implement something like this but are doing it at the wrong time and definitely the wrong price point.
When can we get into the flicks with a bag of jam jars?
2 euro 40 on a tray of beer.
They will have ques around the block at the 3 or 4 machines they install in each area.
People are just gonna accept everything has gone up 10 or 15 cent or que for an hour once a week.
[deleted]
Took them long enough
I loved this when I was in Berlin.
Now if only we could have German beer prices and peanut butter crisis.
Call me a sceptic, but I can see this ending up like the bottle banks. You make a journey to recycle your bottles only to find the bottle bank full to the brim. And so you have to cart all the stuff back home until the collection point finally gets emptied 3 weeks later. At which stage, everyone else in the same situation has arrived before you and filled it again. A bottleneck so to speak [chuckles].
How does this work for people who already recycle all this stuff already? Are the refuse companies going to give us a separate bin? And refund us when it’s collected?
Yes yes and another yes!! This has been around for years in other countries and has been a success everywhere it’s been established really curious as to how it’s taken so long here to get this going seems like a no brainer idea
We live in a world now we’re the recycling money back will be added to the price.
The biggest upside of this scheme is the lack of cans and bottles all over the place.
I remember this being introduced in Germany and suddenly the outdoors got a lot cleaner.
Even if you don’t care about the 25/15 cents some person living on the street will pick it up.
Why not glass also?
Can’t wait for the next marathon.
Gonna make a killin getting a gang together collecting up all them water bottles!
For me and my family, this actually increases emissions.
We all have bins and recycle anyways. Only now I have bags of them collected and often drive up to Lidl especially for the voucher. It’s only a few miles away so still worth it.
My ma saves up a load of cans and drives about 20 miles to the nearest lidl.
Being doing it for months in Lidl, it’s great facility, you tend to buy certain sizes so you can recycle, for example I’d buy 4 or 5 bottles of 5 litre water but not now because the machine isn’t that big, so I buy the same in 2 litre bottles. When you get €1.50 back on the slip to use in the store, ya can’t help but feel it’s a great service.
What they need to do is a collection service for glass, and get rid of plastic bottles altogether.
I lived in the States before and remember we were drinking cans in the park one day and this old lady hung around, about 20m away, and each time one of us finished a can she’d come over and take it from us. It was sad enough but also very convenient.
Love the idea in theory, but as always the devil will be in the detail of the logistics behind it. I’m sure that a few retailers will push back on having the recycle points due to space and cost of staffing issues.
The future “look at this video of my recycling bin being emptied onto my drive and someone taking all the cans and bottles from it” threads could be fun too.
Bloody hell the comments on this, not just here but everywhere. As if the world is ending.
I grew up in a country that has had return deposit forever and guess what, it’s no big deal. It becomes just a part of the normal shopping routine and if you buy roughly the same amount of stuff every week, it won’t be extra – the deposit paid will equal the deposit refunded at the till.
And any cans/bottles that are consumed outside the home are either brought back home or left close to the bin (not in) for homeless people to pick up and return. Less trash and it has the effect of some money flowing to the worst off.
We can argue about the finer points of how this will be implemented, but this is not some big nefarious scheme.
About flipping time
Gee. My Sister and I did this for extra pocket money when we were kids [I’m 46 btw] in NY. Ireland far behind on the curve as usual.
Ban plastic bottles. Everything else is soft.
I wonder if I started stockpiling cans and bottles now could I cash in come 2024. Be like Homer and his pile of sugar.
Is this taxable income? 😆 Wonder if it gives you receipts so you can prove this is your source of extra income should you clean up after lazy people or general litter when on a walk.
Time to set up bottle/can bins all over Dublin and collect free money.
What happens when you use your recycling wheelie bin?
To be honest I’m concerned it will just be another tax – after all most people already recycle cans and bottles in their refuse at home and I guarantee retailers will seize the opportunity to increase prices.
From what I can tell from the machines (and others in Europe) it reads the barcode of the bottle or can, can anyone confirm? If so that means they only single cans or bottles would be subject to the deposit, not multipack cans as I was talking about earlier.
Lived in western canada and it was great to have beer cans recycled into beer money at the end of the month when Bills were paid and cash was low!